Chapter 190: Making egg drop porridge

Off work, off work!

At three in the afternoon, after having a cup of afternoon tea, Lin Xun had no more classes, and Yaya was out of school as well.

Holding Yaya’s small hand, Lin Xun and Yaya, one tall and one short, walked along the streets of Luo City.

Neither Lin Xun nor Yaya had gone home at noon.

However, Luocheng Academy did have a canteen.

But the problem was that the canteen at Luocheng Academy was truly subpar.

If it weren’t for a maid sent by the Luocheng City Lords Mansion at noon to bring word that Qinger had to work overtime and couldn’t return to cook…

Otherwise, Lin Xun would never have eaten at the canteen.

Looking at Yaya, and hearing from her little best friend Rourou and the others that Yaya had only eaten three large bowls of rice at noon, Lin Xun felt a pang of heartache just imagining the scene.

The poor child had grown thin from hunger.

“Yaya, do you want a candied hawthorn?”

Holding Yaya’s small hand, Lin Xun intended to compensate her.

Looking at the candied hawthorns being peddled, Yaya’s eyes lit up slightly, but she quickly lowered her small head and shook it.

“Then will Yaya eat roast chicken?”

“Um, mmm… Yaya won’t eat that either.” Although her eyes kept drifting toward the roast chickens, Yaya still shook her head.

“What’s wrong? No appetite? Are you feeling unwell?” Lin Xun felt Yaya’s forehead. Could the little food-loving fox be sick?

“No, Brother Lin.” Yaya grasped Lin Xun’s large palm. “Yaya wants to save room to eat the food Sister Qinger makes when we go back.”

“Mm, true, Sister Qinger’s cooking is the most delicious.” Lin Xun smiled and rubbed Yaya’s head.

“And Sister Nongqin. Sister Nongqin’s cooking is also very delicious, just as good as Sister Qinger’s,” Yaya added, looking at Lin Xun with innocent eyes.

Yaya missed Sister Nongqin a little.

“Yaya,” Lin Xun looked at Yaya seriously, “you must never say that last part in front of Sister Qinger, do you understand?”

“Why?” Yaya looked at Lin Xun, confused.

“Because…” Lin Xun looked at Yaya with extreme seriousness, “if Yaya says that last part out loud, Yaya might never see Brother Lin again.”

“???”

Several question marks popped up in Yaya’s head.

Brother Lin seemed to have said something like this before, but Yaya still didn’t understand why she would never see him again.

But since Brother Lin said so, Yaya could only agree.

Seeing Yaya nod, Lin Xun was also relieved.

“Come on, Brother Lin will take Yaya to have a pig trotter first. After all, Qinger won’t be off work for another hour. Let’s fill our stomachs first.”

“braised pig trotter! Yaya wants to eat!”

Yaya, who was already drooling, had bright eyes and nodded like a chick pecking at grain.

As expected, Yaya wanting to save room for Qinger’s cooking was one reason.

Another reason was that the charm of candied hawthorns and roast chicken wasn’t strong enough.

braised pig trotter was Yaya’s favorite food, but it was too greasy, so Lin Xun rarely bought it for her.

In a great mood, Lin Xun took Yaya and bought three braised pig trotters.

One for himself, one for Yaya, and one packed for Qinger.

But just as he walked out of the store, Lin Xun thought about it and finally went back to buy one more braised pig trotter to go.

The tall one and the small one walked toward home while gnawing on pig trotters in the street.

As it turned out, before they even reached home, Yaya was pulled away by her little best friends to catch insects.

In the winter of Luo City, there was a small insect called a Pomelo insect, which Yaya said tasted particularly good.

Lin Xun didn’t know in what way it tasted good.

Walking to the Tofu Shop opposite his courtyard, Lin Xun knocked on the door. After a moment, Bai Luoxue opened the door and walked out.

By now, Bai Luoxue’s complexion had improved a lot. It seemed the injuries she sustained a month and a half ago were mostly healed.

Standing before Lin Xun, Bai Luoxue’s cat-tailed peach blossom eyes blinked as she looked at him.

It was as if she wouldn’t speak if Lin Xun didn’t, but she would keep waiting and watching, waiting for Lin Xun to speak.

Bai Luoxue still had a three-no expression, but those eyes were truly too enchanting.

“What are you doing?” Lin Xun asked in a very blunt tone.

At this moment, Bai Luoxue was wearing the ordinary cloth clothes of a common family, but even so, it couldn’t hide the girl’s figure.

Like a fairy banished to the Mortal World wearing Mortal World’s plain clothes, a sense of Immortal Qi and the Mortal World blended together, creating a different kind of beauty.

But what Lin Xun noticed wasn’t her clothes, but several grains of cooked rice, like porridge, stuck to them.

There was also the pale yellow of egg yolk and egg white, and her small face even had a smudge of charcoal black.

It was as if she had just crawled out of a kitchen battlefield.

“Making egg drop porridge.” Bai Luoxue’s tone had no fluctuation as she answered truthfully.

“Oh, egg drop porridge, very nice,” Lin Xun said perfunctorily. Let her cook if she wanted; having something to do was better than her coming to find him for no reason.

“Here, this is a braised pig trotter from a century-old shop. It tastes pretty good. I bought an extra one, so it’s for you.” Lin Xun handed over the braised pig trotter wrapped in oil paper and tied with string.

“For me to eat?” Bai Luoxue asked.

“Otherwise, why would I bring it over?” Lin Xun rolled his eyes at her. “Take it.”

“Oh.” Bai Luoxue took the pig trotter.

“Do you like eating braised pig trotters?” Bai Luoxue seemed to think of something and looked up to ask.

“Not really, I just eat them occasionally.” Lin Xun didn’t plan to stay long and turned to leave. “I’m off.”

“Mm.” Watching Lin Xun’s back until he entered his courtyard and closed the gate, Bai Luoxue withdrew her gaze and closed her own door.

Returning to the courtyard, Bai Luoxue opened the braised pig trotter Lin Xun had given her.

Bai Luoxue held the oil paper, looking it over from left to right.

As for braised pig trotters, Bai Luoxue had heard of them but never eaten one.

Since childhood, as the Saintess of the Huanxi Sect, before reaching the Golden Core Realm to completely stabilize her appearance and figure, Bai Luoxue had to undergo body-shaping training every day and strictly control her diet. It was impossible for her to eat such greasy food.

After reaching the Golden Core Realm, Bai Luoxue never thought about eating them either. Her concept of food had always been to fill her stomach, without much expectation. Moreover, after the Sea Gazing Realm, she had begun Inedia.

Looking at this richly colored braised pig trotter, finally, Bai Luoxue lifted her veil and opened her small mouth. Her thin cherry lips and snow-white teeth bit into this Big Pig Trotter.

Swallowing a mouthful, Bai Luoxue blinked as she looked at the pig trotter in front of her, oil stains on her lips: “Not tasty.”

However, even if it wasn’t tasty, Bai Luoxue still took bite after bite.

After finishing, Bai Luoxue wiped her lips and returned to the kitchen.

“Salt first.”

“Then beat the egg drop.”

“Add rice, add water.”

Bai Luoxue gently dipped her jade-like finger into the water soaking the rice.

“One finger deep, should be fine.”

In the kitchen, following the previous mess of failed Osmanthus Cakes, there were now various broken eggs and scorched porridge.

Beside the girl lay a recipe.

Throughout this day, the girl had already made egg drop porridge for the sixth time.